Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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